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Originally Posted by camaroitalia
Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% WHEY Protein Shake. Usually with water or if I want more calories I use unsweetened Almond Milk.
I am more along lines with Kalimus, where my lunch is more of a pre workout but what if I mix a banana with a protein shake post workout? Will that work about the same as if I were to have a banana pre workout?
Still looking to lose this belly fat. Would this require still cutting or just working on core with my protein?
Here is the protein information:
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You have to look at the big picture. Although meal timing is the fine tuning of your diet it still boils down to daily totals. If you had a banana first thing in the morning or last thing at night it is not that significant so consuming it at the time when it's most advantageous seems to make the most sense to me. If you get down to the nitty gritty the ideal situation is to drink a portion of your workout drink 15 min prior to your workout, sip some during and finish it off right after your workout. This insures a steady supply of protein with the needed glycogen to allow the muscles to utilize it the most efficiently. Then your next meal would be high protein as well but still include a good quality carb. I don't use it but if you look at the label of your unsweetened almond milk I would think it has more sugar than you realize. If you look at pure glucose as the simple carb it has 15 cals, 4g carbs, 4g sugar. These numbers are hardly significant when you look at a days totals. When you workout, when I say workout for this purpose I mean strenuous weight lifting, you use the available glycogen stores, withought them protein synthesis does not take place so by raising the insulin you produce gloycogen and protein synthesis is the result.
It seems you've made great progress with your diet, with that in mind, if I were you I would ease up quite a bit on the cardio for a period of about 3-4 weeks. During this time I would keep very good track of you food intake and eat only healthy choices so if things progress in the wrong direction adjustments will be easy to make. During this time I would concentrate on developing a weight lifting routine and learn proper form but still keeping your work load high enough to challenge yourself. Very often doing this will yield good benefits overall. Your body adapts surprisingly quick to any routine and it then looses it's effectiveness. This change up in routine will change that. Where as you are still young, building muscle shouldn't be to difficult and it will ramp up fat loss and start to tighten you up. I can pretty much guarentee that if you do this, eat healthy and work hard at lifting, that in 3-4 weeks you will start to see a difference and in 6-8 weeks you will be smilin'
We know from your progress reports your fat loss rate, now if you look back over your meals and give us an idea of what your caloric intake has been we can suggest a diet to support this.